Losses you really just don't take into count at all?

Robberies,
Stepping Up a Division or two, especially when it is drastically beyond you're Natural Stature.
Rookie/Early years losses - expected
End of Career losses, again, expected.

off nights, when the evidence or commentary also states as much.

loads of valid reasons for 2cd best performance, much more legitimate in Past Era's, less so today...

I mean if a fighter only has a 30 Fight Career, with all the time & allowances readily at hand for fight preparations, then some of the above realities aren't as much a factor.

but Yes, there Are Legitimate Reasons for a loss and they are mostly recognized for most fighters when the same such realities are Reported!

 

Briggs outlanded Foreman on power punches by a wide margin. If you score power punches instead of Briggs being winded, you can come up with a scorecard for Briggs.

 

Muhammad Ali vs. Holmes / Berbick

 

Anything where I think the fighter was so far removed from their prime, that it has little bearing on their prime performance.

 

Roy Jones losses after the Glen Johnson fight. He was a corpse.

 

Ricky Hatton vs Senchenko

James Degale v Caleb Truax and Chris Eubank - He was a ghost of himself after the Badou Jack war

George Groves v Callum Smith - Groves was patched up and rushed back with a completely ****ed shoulder, looked terrible on the scales as well

Ali v Holmes and Berbick - Not much really needs to be said here

 

The last 2-3 yrs of Ali's career.
Leonards losses to Camacho, Norris.
Jones Jr losses after 2004.
Robinson's losses after 1958
Louis after 1949-50
But really most great fighters stayed around
to long. It's easy to see the difference from
their best years and weight to their last
gasp years and weight when they're clearly
diminished.

 

Holmes getting robbed against Spinks II. Holmes was a two-time champion in my eyes.

Foreman beat Briggs, a far bigger robbery than the above.

 

They weren’t bad, really:

Majority decision to George Benton.

Split decision to Don Fullmer.

Decisions to Henry Hank, Ruben Carter and Holly Mims (he avenged the Mims loss in a rematch).

 

I only count Duran's victories and none of his losses after 1979.

 

Bob Fitzsimmons vs. Tom Sharkey I.

Fitz hit him with his trademark solar plexus punch and Sharkey curled up in a fetal position like a big girl. Sharkey then started holding to himself as if he were hit below the belt, as a last-ditch effort to win the fight. Wyatt Earp, the washed-up gunslinger turned referee, saw this and exclaimed "what in tarnationnnnnnn" and stopped the fight and awarded it to Tom Sharkey on a foul. Most of the attendants didn't even see a low-blow, and Wyatt Earp left the venue in a real hurry to avoid the wrath of the people who had put their money on Fitzsimmons. The selection of Earp as the referee in and of itself was a conspiracy that defied all belief.

Sharkey let most of his cornermen massage his balls, but conveniently refused to let a physician check him out after the fact.